Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: danger

Quoted In The Grove:
Danger is when you are split three ways: Your soul goes one way, your mind goes another way and your body goes yet another way.
~Yogi Bhajan

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
~John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
~Erich Fromm

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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
~Michelangelo

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Exercise Prompt for 12/20: alone

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It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.
~Adam Levin

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.
~Oscar Wilde

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.
~Euripides

Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
~Madame De Stael

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Security is when everything is settled when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
~Germaine Greer

Danger never takes a vacation.
~Author unknown

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Without danger you cannot go beyond danger.
~George Herbert

Danger, the spur of all great minds.
~George Chapman

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Courage in danger is half the battle.
~Plautus

Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
~William Tecumseh Sherman

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
~Jean Paul

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
~Reinhold Niebuhr

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
~Jean Paul

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
~Christian Nestell Bovee

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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
~Charles Caleb Colton

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
~Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
~Thomas Aquinas

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.
~John F Kennedy

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We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.
~Cicero

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
~Sherlock Holmes

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
~Aristotle

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Posted From The Grove

Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
~Winston Churchill

Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.
~Tom Clancy

Still, he figured, sometimes you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do, and then sometimes you’ve just got to run like hell after it’s done.
~Derek Landy

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Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
~Winston Churchill

You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public’s faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.
~Ron Fournier

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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
~Alexander the Great

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.
~Derek Jacobi

A man’s opinion of danger varies at different times according to his animal spirits and is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.
~Smollet

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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
~Nelson Mandela

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born‒that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
~Warren G Bennis

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The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.
~Franklin D Roosevelt

The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
~William Barclay

Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
~Robert F Kennedy

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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world’s democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
~Natan Sharansky

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
~A J P Taylor

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It’s human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn’t banging loudly on the door.
~David Hackworth

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
~Abraham Lincoln

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When there is no peril in fight, there is no glory in the triumph.
~Pierre Corneille

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
~James Madison

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
~Lord Acton

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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
~H G Wells

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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
~Carter G Woodson

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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
~Carl Schurz

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Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
~Ted Nugent

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I suppose I’m intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I’m a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.
~Jude Law

It seems to me that we’re in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.
~Alexander McCall Smith

It’s a problem for him because he’s got – like Edward VII had – nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.
~Anthony Holden

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.—He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
~Charles Caleb Colton

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything… or nothing.
~Nancy Astor

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
~Alexis de Tocqueville

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
~Henry George

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
~George Konrad

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There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
~Dick Cheney

‘The purpose you undertake is dangerous;’ — why, that’s certain: ’tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety…
~William Shakespeare, Henry IV

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The United States is the world’s best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
~Henry Cabot Lodge

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
~Orson Scott Card

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.
~John F Kennedy

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You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
~Johnny Isakson

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.
~Aristotle

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But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
~William Tecumseh Sherman

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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
~Thomas Sowell

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.
~Pete Hoekstra

Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.
~William S Burroughs

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
~Lewis Mumford

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In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
~Tony Blair

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
~Margaret Thatcher

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics, none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
~Thomas Huxley

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Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.
~Shimon Peres

I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That’s why I have opposed Israel’s settlement policy since 1973, and that’s why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967.
~Alan Dershowitz

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it’s a right they’re born with. Here it’s a right given by the government, and one that’s not really practised.
~Ai Weiwei

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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
~Arthur Henderson

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
~Elizabeth I

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~Multiply: Danger 1:30 (3:19) gorgeous, thoroughly satisfying, gleaming precision machines making a. . .

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~Latro: We Want Danger (3:03) …as inspiration

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~6th Finger Desire: Dangerous Afternoon (1:47) description of an exhibition, poetry in itself

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~Calgary Arts Development: Artists are Dangerous (6:41) less than a crusade, more than a calling, snippets of definition & inspiration

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~Rachel Leigh Dolan: Dangerous (4:39) dance done up fine, Michael be proud of this

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~Alice Huang: Dangerous (0:51) camouflaged in a sheet of paper, a dancer

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~Rajeev: very dangerous (0:30) green-light creepy

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
~E M Forster

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
~Michel Foucault

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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
~George Washington

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
~Christian Lous Lange

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
~Ayn Rand

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
~Niccolo Machiavelli

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
~Alexander Meiklejohn

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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
~Alexis de Tocqueville

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
~Lajos Kossuth

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad… The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
~James Madison

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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you’re afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
~Tim Robbins

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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
~H L Mencken

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
~Charles A Beard

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
~Joel Osteen

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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is an opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
~Earl Nightingale

When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity… Be aware of danger‒but recognize the opportunity.
~John F Kennedy

Danger will wink on opportunity.
~John Milton

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Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.
~Bruce Henderson

The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.
~Martin Parr

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
~Pablo Picasso

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Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
~Epictetus

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
~Graham Greene

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Nobody heeds danger when they’re making money.
~James Cook

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.
~Pierre Corneille

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.
~Publilius Syrus

That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.
~Decimus Laberius

Life’s greatest dangers are often found in apparently small risks.
~James Lendall Basford

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.
~Leo Burnett

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If you like a person you say ‘let’s go into business together.’ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
~Brian Tracy

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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
~Wendell Willkie

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It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you.
~Tony Benn

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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
~Henry David Thoreau

Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.
~Thomas Frank

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
~Hubert H Humphrey

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The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.
~William John Wills

We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us and therefore we have no cause for complaint
~Robert Falcon Scott

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
~Samuel Johnson

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
~Alfred Adler

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Nothing is so steadfast as to be free of danger from even the weakest person.
~Roman Proverb

Money without brains is always dangerous.
~Napoleon Hill

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I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.
~Rick Mercer

I think there’s a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.
~JoBeth Williams

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.
~Megan Fox

On ‘Into The Wild’ I spent months risking my life and on ‘Speed Racer’ I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
~Emile Hirsch

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In danger there is great power.
~Agnes Whistling Elk

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
~Edmund Burke

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
~Richard J Daley

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
~Edward Abbey

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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
~Abigail Adams

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
~James Madison

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
~John Adams

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist.
~Erich Fromm

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
~Eric Sevareid

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
~Louisa May Alcott

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
~Jean de la Bruyere

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it’s truly dangerous.
~Tim Robbins

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~Justin Burks: Danger Planet (4:17) stoopid cartoon touches all the romance-adventure bases, candy colored palette

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~Ryan Gillis: Danger Island (4:09) English humor mockumentary cartoon

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~zebRAW: Danger |vs| Death Proof – Danger Bostleg Tournament (5:17) not for the squeamish, it’s Tarantino

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
~Samuel Johnson

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
~Northrop Frye

Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.
~Belva Plain

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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray;
Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way:
Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on,
And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
~John Dryden

But as far as Twitter, I’ll be in a restaurant and I’ll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don’t want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.
~Carrie Underwood

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
~Sacha Baron Cohen

I’m really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
~Lyle Lovett

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I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.
~Ethan Hawke

Being famous before you’ve formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
~Chris Evert

I’m very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I’ve heard applied to a lot of people that I’ve since not heard of again.
~Greg Kinnear

With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there’s a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, ‘Hey, wake up!’
~David Schwimmer

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
~Tennessee Williams

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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect—in terror. In this unnerved—in this pitiable condition—I feel that I must inevitably abandon life and reason together, in my struggles with the grim phantasm, FEAR.
~Edgar A Poe

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
~Daniel Defoe

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
~Proverb

In this world, there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
~George Bernard Shaw

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears do not give advantage to the danger.
~Quarles

He that fears danger in time seldom feels it.
~Turkish proveb

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will; indeed, it has led many people into dangers which mere physical courage would shudder away from, for hunger and love and curiosity are the great impelling forces of life.
~James Stephens

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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I’m just now learning. But it’s not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it’s not that they try to make you compromise your art. That’s not the problem.
~T-Bone Burnett

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
~Sydney J Harris

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No? I’ve used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
~Tim Robbins

After a few months in my parents’ basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
~David Sedaris

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
~Dave Grohl

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Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design – designing too early what a program should do.
~Paul Graham

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
~Miguel de Cervantes

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
~Alvar Aalto

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There is danger in everything that we do.
~Laura Huxley

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
~Gertrude Stein

Everything is danger, but we pretend that it’s not.
~Howard Rheingold

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.
~Christo

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
~Henry David Thoreau

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~Os Bend: J J Cale & Eric Clapton • Danger (5:31) moody neons, a dark night in detective mode

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~Filip Sterckx: Willow • Danger (3:53) it’s done with mirrors

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~Claudyo Telles: The Flirts • Danger (4:27) he’s bad news, the usual… the focus? unusual

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~PsychoSaints: The Northernettes • Danger (3:15) as music: fun, catchy, but not bubblegum

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~Ace of Base: Living in Danger (3:11) imagined or otherwise, it’s in the eyes

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~Alex Cook: Son Lux • Dangerous (4:07) hunted, haunting

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~Assanali: Dangerous Rush (3:23) high-speed formula 1 racing, the feel of real

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~The Doobie Brothers: Dangerous (5:43) musicians working it

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~Senior Post: Ruby Stinson • Dangerous (3:29) dangerous women proudly so

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~Ariana Grande: Dangerous Woman (3:42) he makes her dangerous?

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~lepa26: ELO • Danger Ahead (3:50) zany, acrobatic, also concert footage

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~Paulo Cesar: Top Gun ‒ Danger Zone (3:08) the skies, flight deck of a carrier, with Kenny Logins singing

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Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.
~Sonia Johnson

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
~Patrice Leconte

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
~George Bernard Shaw

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If it’s not some daring, dangerous affair, it’s just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people – a famous American iconic couple – who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.
~Shelley Long

Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
~Delmore Schwartz

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I wouldn’t want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I’m terrified that they might end up with someone like me.
~Antonio Banderas

Danger will chase her and she will always greet it with a smile.
~R M Drake

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We can’t blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn’t put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it’s dirty and dangerous.
~David Suzuki

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
~Pope John Paul II

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I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can’t be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it’s so dangerous for kids. So there’s a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.
~Tim McGraw

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don’t put me in danger.
~Casey Affleck

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Something that’s such a joy in my life every day – cooking – is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
~Julia Roberts

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
~Margaret Drabble

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
~Simone Weil

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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
~James Thurber

There’s something dangerous about what’s funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
~Christopher Walken

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
~Oscar Wilde

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
~Bill Cosby

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
~C C Phelps

When in danger or in doubt,
run in circles, scream and shout.
~Herman Wouk

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
~Thornton Wilder

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
~David Sarnoff

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
~Giacomo Casanova

If you have only one passion in life – football – and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
~Eric Cantona

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The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.
~Sebastian Vettel

I always tell people that our sports aren’t that dangerous.
~Shaun White (snowboarding / downhill madness)

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.
~Ernest Hemingway

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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
~Petrarch

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
~Vaclav Klaus

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.
~Gwen Moore

The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.
~Terry Tempest Williams

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
~Ethan A Hitchcock

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What I’m attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they’ll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don’t need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.
~Dominic Monaghan

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I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.
~David Baltimore

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
~Stephen Hawking

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce…
~Joseph Rotblat

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
~Friedrich Durrenmatt

The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it.
~Linus Torvalds

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Well, it’s very dangerous to project, but it’s clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
~Jack Kilby

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
~Christian Lous Lange

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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
~Kate Smith

I’ve been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that’s obsessed with one thing, unless it’s, like, jeans, it’s very dangerous. Everyone’s obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It’s ridiculous.
~Christina Ricci

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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
~Alfred North Whitehead

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
~Joseph Rotblat

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@Writers Platform

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, to believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
~Peter Davison

There’s danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.
~Tavi Gevinson

The shore is safer… but I love to buffet the sea — I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!
~Emily Dickinson, letter to Annie P Strong, 1851

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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It’s for others; it’s for others to use.
~Leonard Cohen

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
~Salvatore Quasimodo

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Like all young reporters – brilliant or hopelessly incompetent – I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits – the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.
~Russell Baker

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
~Jessica Savitch

The danger of having too close deadlines. It could lead you to just accept an avenue that’s not quite good enough.
~Judith Weir

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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
~Rabindranath Tagore

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Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further… No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
~Carl Jung

Never was anything great achieved without danger.
~Niccolo Machiavelli

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When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful.
~David Shields

For — believe me — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into unchartered seas!
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
~Nicole Kidman

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it’s not part of a sensible way of living. It’s a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
~Jane Campion

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
~Jeanette Winterson

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He’s dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.
~Hugo Pratt

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
~Elizabeth Bishop

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
~Marcel Proust

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
~T E Lawrence

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Prewritten Prompt: danger

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His works! Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Faith alone defends.
~Helen Keller

When fire is cried and danger is nigh,
God and the firemen is the people’s cry;
But when ’tis out and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.
~The Fireman’s Journal, 1879

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
~Mother Teresa

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: ‘Use me.’
~Rick Warren

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There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.
~Lawrence Wright

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom – the fear of God.
~Ray Comfort

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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
~David Hume

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
~George Santayana

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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
~Confucius

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
~Thomas Huxley

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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
~Abigail Van Buren

Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
~Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
~George Bernard Shaw

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

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§ The Exercise:

progression

dangers of toxic discovery
a plot hole in wanting eternity
golden promise instead of delivery
solid premise of gold in the treasury

discovering wisdom thru kindness
willing to abide in a spirit of blindness
leaving grief and the grievance behind us
choosing hope with a promise to remind us

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curmudgeon

honored treasure
onerous pleasure
dangerous gesture
It’s not my place
to say aye or nay
how one should spend
which holiday
just make your noise
and go away

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viewpoint #6

the dangers of serendipity
same as unearned opportunity
means fate has got the best of me
voids the pleasure of uncertainty

once matters measured in degrees
now measured matters by decree
fate and chance with fangs for teeth
neither matters if no longer free

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5s ‘n 7s

Blind date at the Danger Zone
Her only tell trademark scythe
Tattoo’d blood left inner thigh
High slit dress suggests a throat
Adventure calls… end of note

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beauty’s ugly smothering
mothering yet bothering
selfless selfie offering
used to rules and ridicule
naked dangers modeling

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danger, fame’s ubiquity
wards off anonymity
privacy or wish to be
he or she but please not me
free in cloaked identity

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callipygian beauties
exotic standards apply
sufferings of temptation
dangers of romance on tap
daydream dance, rusty faucet

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love, surely the best of life
yet love leaks away, in truth
dangers, outsiders intrude
to begin but serves the end
death offends, portends, descends

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wilderness beauty
wilder than her nest
knotty or naughty
both looking their best
in danger, the test
choice, not a duty
trees, or the cutie

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Flamboyant Dangers:
Lightning from a cloudless sky
Arrive unannounced
Revelation of preference
Your politics are βʊ₤ḸՖ♯ῗ╦*

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dried leaf skeleton
flesh gone, like love’s memory
stark empty beauty
such the trap, so the danger
when dead bones pretend to art

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headlines read: Danger
head lines, furrowed worry lines
threatened vulgar times
selfie framed generations
selfish, when we became me

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days of quarantine
menace to the public weal
self imposed exiles
dangers of being alone
mad days dependent on phones

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slapped, nose-punch, thrown out
account closed, request denied
dangers being rude

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Danger To Anger
Profession: Milquetoast, at large
More mild than the meek

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doorway with a view
entrance and exit and you
dangers: red and blue

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bodyscape danger
worship of curves and texture
’tis love lights the eyes

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Ranger in danger
crossed border into Or-Else
wondering what if

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surprises are great
interruptions are not so…
dangers of timing

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meet her parents day
meter readings critical
danger tops red zone

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wisdom from danger’s
short hard-pressed dive into life
practice for what’s next

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moving together
intimacies of music
dangers of the dance

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dangers of a star
fallen from stellar ratings
angel nonetheless

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flowering danger
buds that intoxicate
fatal to boredom

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
~Steven Brust

There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.
~Thomas F Wilson

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Danger levels man and brute, and all are fellows in their need.
~Lord Byron

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
~Goethe

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Some dangers are to be courted ‒ courted and braved as a coy mistress is to be wooed, with all the more vigor as the day makes against us.
~Christian Nestell Bovee

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
~Milan Kundera

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This is well to be weighed, that boldness is ever blind, for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences; therefore it is ill in counsel, good in execution…
~Francis Bacon

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
~George Santayana

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Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit.
~Eiji Yoshikawa

Danger came in different packages, at different points in a lifetime.
~Jodi Picoult

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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice.
~Jules Renard

And there is nothing more dangerous in this world, in any world, than someone calm, clear, and angry.
~Audrey Hart

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